IMPRS Spring Block Course 2025: Physical Chemistry at Atomic Length and Timescales.

12 Mar 2025, 00:00 → 15 Mar 2025, 23:59 Europe/Berlin

Schloss Ringberg am Tegernsee

Welcome to the website of the International Max Planck Research School for Elementary Processes in Physical Chemistry (IMPRS-EPPC) Spring Block Course 2025: Physical Chemistry at Atomic Length and Timescales.

 

We are lucky to have the Ringberg Castle to our disposal for the duration of the workshop on March 12 - 15, 2025! It is a beautiful castle, originally built by Duke Luitpold and inherited to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in 1973, located close to the Tegernsee in southern Bavaria with a beautiful view over the city and lake.
It is fully organized by the IMPRS students from the Fritz-Haber-Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universität Potsdam.

 

A wide range of topics have been covered, ranging from the microscopic level (electronic structure, reaction mechanisms, ...) to macroscopic applications (catalysts, functional materials, engineering applications).

The Book of Abstract is available.

 

Wednesday, 12 March

16:00 Check-in

18:00 Dinner

1 Opening session

Gustavo A. Garcia - Analytical applications of valence-shell photoelectron spectroscopy to gas phase chemistry
Margherita Citroni - Insights into scientific publishing

Thursday, 13 March

08:00 Breakfast

Morning session T1: Morning session I

Anna Maria Roslawska - Optics of single molecules explored with sub-nm precision
Markus Huber - Time-resolved terahertz nanoscopy reveals subcycle electron dynamics in
semiconducting quantum materials

10:40 Coffee break

Morning session T2: Morning session 2

Céline Chizallet - Atomic scale simulation of reactions catalyzed by Brønsted acidic zeolite
catalysts
Fabian Berger - The Atlas of Active Sites in Single-Atom and Dual-Atom Alloys

12:35 Lunch

Afternoon session T3: Afternoon session I

Ruth Signorell - Chemical and physical processes in the confined environment of an
aerosol particle
Ansgar Schäfer - Career Opportunities for Scientists at BASF

15:40 Coffee break

2 Poster session flash talks

3 Poster session

Paul Albrecht - Custom electron integrals – Or, why you should use SymPy
Caja Annweiler - Investigation of the Superconducting Pairing Instability using Single-and Two-Particle Green’s Functions
Viktoria Brandt - Photoelectron Circular Dichroism in the Photodetachment of Deprotonated 1-Phenylethanol
Shih Yu Fu - Liquid phase electron & x-ray microscopy for heterogeneous catalyst reaction
Shirin Gholami - Interaction of Ions and Surfactants at the Seawater-Air Interface
David Greten - Investigating the Impact of Optimization Algorithms on Element Substitution Based Materials Discovery
Maya Heine - CO2 reduction by solvated electrons at the NH3/Cu(111) interface
Yichen Jin - Charge-transfer excitons and transient electronic structure at mol2Dmat interfaces
Ben John - Probing Lateral Heterogeneity in Molecular Systems using Phase-Resolved Sum Frequency Generation Microscopy
Valerii Karpov - DFT Analysis of Water Diffusion in MOF-303
Tania Mukherjee - Unraveling magnetic ordering in a van der Waals correlated material
Vivien Sleziona - Hot electron dynamics in fs-laser-excited metallic nanotips
Henning Windeck - Next Generation Quantum Chemistry of Water Adsorption in Acidic Zeolites
Philipp Schwendke - How to: Time-resolved SNOM in the visible
Qi Zhou - Electrostatic Interactions in Aqueous Systems: Ion Distribution and Interfacial Molecular Dipoles

18:30 Dinner

20:00 Social event

Friday, 14 March

08:00 Breakfast

Morning session I: Morning session F1

Stefan Boettcher - TBA
Daniela Rupp - Coherent Diffraction Imaging of isolated nanostructures and their
ultrafast dynamics

10:40 Coffee break

Morning session II: Morning session F2

Rochus Schmid - Beyond PBC: Adsorption-Induced Phase Transformations of MOF
Nanocrystallites

11:50 Lunch

4 Poster session flash talks

13:15 Poster session

Elif Öykü Alagöz - Operando Surface X-ray Diffraction for Probing Cations in the Double Layer during Electrochemical Reactions
Dashjargal Arildii - IR Spectroscopy of Larger Pyrrole Cation Clusters (Pyn+): Evolution of
Charge Resonance Interaction
John Micheal Correa-Hoyos - Insights on the effect of water in the isothermal partial oxidation of methanol on gold surfaces
Christoph Dähn - Where Electrons Rest After Dark: Polaron Stability in Opto-Ionic 2D Niobium Titanate
Harmanjot Kaur - Strongly Enhanced Cooperative Surface Propensity of Atmospherically Relevant Organic Molecular Ions in Aqueous Solution
Elisabeth Keller - Bayesian Uncertainty Estimates for Spin-Component-Scaled Second-Order Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory
Pulkit Kukreja - Experiments with continuous sources of AlF molecules
Samuele Lasagna - Activating Cu(310) surfaces for CO2RR
Emanuel Colombi Manzi - Hydrogen Complexes on Single-Atom Alloys: A combined DFT-Kinetic Monte Carlo Study
Stephan Schmutzler - Manipulation of Surface Domains in an ultrasoft van-der-Waals Ferromagnet
Clara Simons - Integrating a Multi-Terahertz Source with Active Shot-To-Shot Jitter Correction for Terahertz-Pump Optical-Probe Experiments
América Torres-Boy - H-Bonding in Ionic Complexes: Insights from Infrared Action
Spectroscopy in Helium Droplets
Timon Wagner - Influence of Defects on the Active State Formation of Doped Co3 − xMxO4 Electrocatalysts during Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Paul Wiechers - Generation of single cycle terahertz pulses for a THz-STM and improvement of the current measurement noise
Henrik Wiedenhaupt - Two-Color Pump-Probe STM of Coherent Phonon Dynamics in
Ultrathin ZnO/Ag(111)

15:00 Group photo

15:15 Social event

5 Afternoon session

Jennifer Rupp - Lithium, Light & Action: Novel Hybrid Energy Supercap-Intercalation
and Solar Battery Storage for Energy Transition 2.0

18:45 Dinner

6 Open scientific discussions

Saturday, 15 March

08:00 Breakfast & check-out

09:00 Departure